3/30/11 ~ me, today, after work. Wonderful sweater, new button, cooperative weather! It all came together when my husband was kind enough to take these new pics!

I LOVE this pattern! I LOVE Norah’s creativity! I call this blind knitting as one puts together the pentagons following a chart, sleeves are extensions of a pentagon in ribbing. You really don’t know what you have regarding fit until the neck is completed, hence the term knitting blindly. Also, I wasn’t sure about the measure intentions of the pentagon according to the schematic. 5 inches across, 5 inches diagonal, 5 inches for one side? Each of these dimensions would have given a different fit. Too vague.

When I first put this on and buttoned it up, the neckline seemed more like a v-neck, very much NOT what I wanted or what was pictured on the pattern. To achieve the roundness of the neckline that I did want, I sewed 2 snaps at the seam line (where the neck piece attaches to the body), on the overlap part. (Think like you see in a double-breasted coat). The snaps achieved EXACTLY what I wanted as you can see, here. Now, I am considering one more snap at the overlap part at the top (by my neck). Can you see where it sinks in a little bit? I haven’t done it yet, but thinking on it as I wear this a LOT throughout the Spring and Early Fall.

I did use the one row buttonhole technique and I fussed with the button. I did sew on a fairly plain one as the pattern is so textured and interesting but, who knows, it could change and as per first paragraph, it did!

At any rate, here I am and here it is and I find it a very unique, wearable piece of art.